10.
The following Malayalam film is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello.

(A)
Kāryam Nissāram

(B)
Kaliveedu

(C)
Kaliyāttam

(D)
Kāthodu Kāthoram

Answer: (C)

11.
Strophe, anti-strophe and epode are parts of

(A)
a sonnet

(B)
a one-act play

(C)
an ode

(D)
a ballad

Answer: (C)

12.
The first German adaptation of the legend of ‘The Chalk Circle’ was done by

(A)
Goethe

(B)
Brecht

(C)
Klabund

(D)
Mann

Answer: (C)

13.
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biography of

(A)
Vincent Van Gogh

(B)
Pablo Picasso

(C)
Michelangelo

(D)
Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: (C)

14.
‘Epinicia’ means

(A)
Song of lamentation

(B)
Wedding song

(C)
Song of victory

(D)
Divine hymns

Answer: (C)

15. Identify the person who wrote –
“Just as this earth is not the sum of patches of land belonging to different
people and to know the earth as such is sheer rusticity, so literature is not
the mere total of works composed by different hands. Most of us, however, think
of literature in what I have called the manner of the rustic.”

28.
“Gorkhey Jeep” is a very famous Indian short story written in Nepali language
by

(A)
Rabindrakumar Moktan

(B)
Shivkumar Rai

(C)
Indra Bahadur Rai

(D)
Jas Youzon Piyasi

Answer: (A)

29.
The Vaishnava love lyrics were composed by

(A)
Chandidas and Ramprasad

(B)
Ramprasad and Govindadas

(C)
Bharatchandra and Vidyapati

(D)
Vidyapati and Chandidas

Answer: (D)

30.
The concept of estrangement was used differently for literary analysis by

(A)
Wellek & Prawer

(B)
Iser & Jauss

(C)
Brecht & Shklovsky

(D)
Freud & Lacan

Answer: (C)

31.
He Aranya He Mahanagar is

(A)
a collection of Ahamiya poems by Nabakanta Barua

(B)
a collection of Bangla poems by Rabindranath Tagore

(C)
an anthology of ecocritical essays in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore

(D)
a collection of Oriya poems by Nilakantha Das

Answer: (A)

32.
“On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” is written by

(A)
Friedrich Schleiermacher

(B)
Roman Jakobson

(C)
John Dryden

(D)
Walter Benjamin

Answer: (B)

33.
Abhinava Bharati is

(A)
a commentary of Natyashastra

(B)
a biography of Abhinava Gupta

(C)
a history of Kashmir

(D)
an exposition of Mahabharata

Answer: (A)

34.
According to “Natyashastra”, women characters will talk in

(A)
Sauraseni Prakrit

(B)
Sanskrit

(C)
Magadhi Prakrit

(D)
Prachya

Answer: (A)

35.
The Haun Saussy report deals with

(A)
Problems of multiculturalism after the end of the Cold War

(B)
Chinese Aesthetics

(C)
State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature

(D)
Orientalism

Answer: (C)

36.
The writer of the travelogue, Englondey Bangamahila first published in 1885 was

(A)
Krishnabhavini Das

(B)
Rassundari Dasi

(C)
Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa

(D)
Kasturba Gandhi

Answer: (A)

37.
Identify the dominant ‘rasa’ of drama:

(A)
Vira/Hasya

(B)
Sringara/Vira

(C)
Hasya/Raudra

(D)
Sringara/Karuna

Answer: (B)

38. In a drama (Natyavastu) situationwise
and meaningwise how many ‘Sandhis’ are there?

(A) 10

(B)
6

(C)
5

(D)
4

Answer: (C)

39.
Jnanesvari is a famous

(A)
Avadhi Commentary of Ramcharitmanas

(B)
Hindi translation of Mahabharata

(C)
Marathi exposition of Bhagavadgita

(D)
Autobiography of Marathi saint poet Jnanesvara

Answer: (C)

40.
Colonization provides a backdrop of

(A)
The Magic Mountain

(B)
Siddhartha

(C)
Things Fall Apart

(D)
The Little Prince

Answer: (C)

41.
The first literary adaptation of the German story of Faust was done by

(A)
Thomas Mann

(B)
J.W. Goethe

(C)
Murnau

(D)
Christopher Marlowe

Answer: (D)

42.
Aeosopica is

(A)
a book of songs

(B)
a book of legends

(C)
a book of limerics

(D)
a book of fables

Answer: (D)

43. “A translation has to be true to the
translator no less than to the originals … Translation is choice, interpretation,
an assertion of taste, a betrayal of what answers to one’s needs, one’s envies.”
– Identify the author:

45. The American pioneer in the development
of the theory and practice of Bible translation is

(A) Leonard Bloomfield

(B)
Eugene A. Nida

(C)
Edwin Gentzur

(D)
Mildred L. Larson

Read the following passage and
answer the questions:

Traditionally, readers of
literature, postulated an instantly responsive reader and strove to read like
one. It is possible, however, to replace this postulate with the postulate of
an initially unresponsive reader. Although it is strictly a postulate, it seems
to correspond to observed reader behaviour at first meetings with a literary work.
It is well known that the first reaction to unfamiliar music is one of puzzlement,
apathy, or even dislike and that only continued exposure builds up a ‘taste’ or
a capacity for response. This applies, in varying degrees, to music in general
and then at lower levels of generalization, to a composer, a composition, a
musician or singer, and an individual piece of music or a song. It similarly applies,
again, varying degrees to literature, a genre, an author, a literary work and a
particular passage.

Answer: (B)

46.
The author is of the view that

(A)
readers of literature are dumb

(B)
readers of literature are believed to naturally respond to texts

(C)
readers of literature take their time in responding to what is before them

(D)
readers of literature respond without any prejudice

Answer: (B)

47.
That readers naturally and instinctively respond to literature is a/an _______

(A)
antiquated view

(B)
modern view

(C)
traditional view

(D)
erroneous view

Answer: (C)

48. On what basis does the author advance
his postulate of “an initially unresponsive reader”?

(A) Personal observation

(B) Observed behaviour of readers

(C)
Behaviour of observant readers

(D)
General statistical information

Answer: (B)

49.
What, according to the author, is conducive to better appreciation of art
objects?

(A)
Taste

(B)
Continued exposure to art objects

(C)
Postulates relating to art objects

(D)
Patience

Answer: (B)

50.
What does the expression “in varying degrees” refer to in this passage?